Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal

Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal is a government medical college in Madhya Pradesh, run as an autonomous body under the state's Department of Medical Education. It was inaugurated on 13 August 1955 by Pt. Lal Bahadur Shastri and began with 50 students and two departments, Anatomy and Physiology. Its own building in the old Fatehgarh Fort, above the Upper Lake, was opened in 1963 by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. The campus lies on Sultania Road beside Hamidia Hospital, which the college site describes as an NABH fully accredited hospital; the RIRD/TB Hospital is the other hospital listed. The site states recognition by the Medical Council of India, whose work now rests with the National Medical Commission.

The MBBS course has 250 seats: 205 through state selection, 37 through the all-India quota and 8 for nominees of the Government of India. Postgraduate seats total 266 in 22 MD and MS subjects, divided equally between state and all-India selection, with MD Anaesthesiology the largest at 35. Fifteen super-speciality seats are offered in urology, medical gastroenterology, cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, cardiology, paediatric surgery and burn and plastic surgery. A nursing college runs M.Sc. Nursing, Post Basic B.Sc. Nursing and B.Sc. Nursing, and paramedical diplomas are recognised by the Madhya Pradesh Paramedical Council. MBBS and PG candidates are admitted through NEET-based counselling.